Former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Anna confirmed dead

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has died.

The Ghanaian died at a hospital in Switzerland, Saturday morning after short illness, former Deputy Health Minister Dr Victor Bampoe confirmed it to Joy News. He was 80.

Mr Annan served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.

Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.

Annan was born in Kumasi, Annan went on to study economics at Macalester College, international relations from the Graduate Institute Geneva and management at MIT. He joined the UN in 1962, working for the World Health Organization's Geneva office.

He then went on to work in several capacities at the UN Headquarters including serving as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping between March 1992 and December 1996.

Kofi Annan in a pose with Nelson Mandela

Annan was appointed as the Secretary-General on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council, and later confirmed by the General Assembly, making him the first officeholder to be elected from the UN staff itself. He was re-elected for a second term in 2001, and was succeeded as Secretary-General by Ban Ki-moon on 1 January 2007.

As the Secretary-General, Annan reformed the UN bureaucracy; worked to combat HIV, especially in Africa; and launched the UN Global Compact.

He has been criticized for not expanding the Security Council and faced calls for resignation after an investigation into the Oil-for-Food Programme.

After leaving the UN, he founded the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2007 to work on international development. In 2012, Annan was the UN–Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria, to help find a resolution to the ongoing conflict there.

Annan quit after becoming frustrated with the UN's lack of progress with regard to conflict resolution. In September 2016, Annan was appointed to lead a UN commission to investigate the Rohingya crisis.

‘You should have taken the bullets’ – Female MP tells ‘resigned’ Miss Ghana

A member of the Gender Committee of Parliament has called out Margaret Dery, winner of Miss Ghana 2017 who resigned on Tuesday, for not enduring what many have described as exploitation of ladies.

According to Madam Joycelene Tetteh, who is also the Member of Parliament for North Dayi constituency, Margaret Dery should have acted as a matured woman and carried out her responsibilities even though she claims she was harassed.

In an interview MzGee on Hitz News @ 1, the MP, who indicated that Parliament will investigate the matter, still believes that the beauty queen should not have stepped down but rather ‘taken the bullets’.

The beauty queen, who was crowned October 7 last year at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Accra, revealed that she is no longer interested in holding the office as Ghana’s beauty queen.

Miss Dery, just after eight months as queen has sent an email to the organisers, Exclusive Events Ghana, to formally inform them of her decision.

Exclusive Events Ghana, owned by Inna Mariam Patty, organisers of the Miss Ghana pageant say they have “gladly accepted” the resignation of the winner of the 2017 pageant, Margaret Dery.

On the heels of the resignation of 2017 winner of Miss Ghana, Margaret Dery, a number of individuals have raised red flags over the rampant allegations of exploitation levelled against the organizers.

The allegations became a matter of national discussion after three former beauty queens openly accused Exclusive Events Ghana Limited, organisers of the pageant, of taking undue advantage of them with some claiming they were ‘pimped’.

Madam Joycelene Tetteh suggested that the government should take back the franchise of the event so that the state can regulate the beauty pageant.




Source: myjoyonline.com

Olu Jacobs son's white wedding

Son of a veteran actor, Soji Jacobs and Elizabeth Douglas tied the nuptial knot in Lagos yesterday, 21st July, 2018.

The groom is the first child of popular Nollyhood couple, Olu Jacobs and Joke Silva.

The wedding ceremony was graced by numerous actors in and out of the Nollyhood movie industry.

Below are some pictures from the ceremony;

Photos from Sarkodie's private white wedding

Sarkodie and longtime girlfriend, Tracy have sealed their marriage festivities with a white wedding today at Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra.

This comes after the two did their traditional wedding on July 17, 2018, at a private location in Tema.

See below for the first photos from the Private White Wedding happening now:

Source:ameyawdebra.com

Police Officer assaults mother and Baby

One Frederick Amanor Skalla, is currently at the Police Headquarters awaiting possible prosecution for indecent assault.

In a video that has gone viral on social media, Skalla, was seen virtually punching and slapping a nursing mother in a banking hall.

Reports suggest the woman, who is yet to be identified, had gone to the Midland Savings and Loans to withdraw an amount of money.

She, however, reported a little late after banking hours and was asked to leave. The woman who was clutching to her baby is reported to have pleaded with the bank officials to allow her cash her money.

For daring to appeal, Frederick Amanor Skalla, was asked to send her out of the banking hall and he did that in a Rambo-style.


                             Click below to watch video

Source: myjoyonline.com

Shatta Wale will soon go mad--Bukom Banku

Some Ghanaians have questioned the mental stability of Shatta Wale with regards to his weird attitude towards stakeholders in the Ghana music industry, including bloggers.

Recently, Achipalago who used to be a close pal of the Dancehall artiste has once begged Ghanaians to pray for Shatta Wale or take him to a psychiatric hospital for checkup. After making this noble suggestion, fans of Shatta as usual chastised Achipalago from all angles.

Well, the latest personality to question the mental health of Shatta Wale is popular Ghanaian boxer, Bukom Banku.

According to the boxer, Shatta Wale has gone for an occultic powers to help him gain popularity, adding the spirit would soon take over his mind.

He added that, Shatta Wale intentionally leaked the obscene video or better still blowjob viral video via Snapchat because he has started losing his mind. Bukom Banku said this in a video he shared on his social media platform.

“I told Ghanaians that Shatta Wale is going crazy, he went for a bad spirit and the spirit is worrying him and the spirit wants to kill him.

“Shatta Wale has disgrace Ghanaians and himself after releasing that unfortunate video,” Bukom Banku said.

Source: ghbase.com

Get Me an Airconditioned Office — Shatta Wale ‘orders’ NAM1

Shatta Wale has thrown a word of caution to his boss Nana Appiah Mensah to get him an air conditioned office at Zylofon Media. Wale, probably bored out of his mind, took to social media to fire off some nonsensical posts about his label. Wale claims his office at the label has no air conditioning and he needs one installed ASAP. “So my office for Zylofon ,no air condition deh am not happy at all ..oh wow .. NAM1 come and save me oooo lol … ” he posted.

Source: peacefmonline.com